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I'm very unrelaxed doing a newspaper interview.

The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.

I don't really read a lot of newspapers. I don't pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I've had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.

I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.

I couldn't find any way to tell the truth in a regular newspaper.

I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.

Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.

I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

I'm a reporter - if I don't interview someone, I don't have much to say, and I definitely can't just sit down and knock out 800 words on any subject you give me.